Player Info ››
Name: Rin
Age: 31
Contact Information: chatvert / Temujin#0712
Other Characters Played: n/a

Character Info ››
Name: Jackie Ma
Canon: Sleeping Dogs
Age: 28
Canon Point: "The Election"

History: Jackie @ Sleeping Dogs wiki

Personality:

• Why wasn't I born a dog??: One of Jackie’s greatest strengths - and ironically, what gets him killed in the end - is his loyalty. Treat him well, and you’ve got a friend for life. He even prioritizes his loyalty to his friends over his loyalty to his triad boss. When Mr. Tong has Wei tortured after finding Jackie’s body, he taunts Wei by recounting Jackie’s intense loyalty to him in the face of torture and his refusal to believe that his best friend is an undercover cop. He can be loyal to a cause or loyal to a group, but the most intense loyalty he can have is loyalty to someone who was kind to him. He gave up on the Sun On Yee after being kidnapped and buried alive, but even after brutal torture, he never gave up on Wei.
  
• It's way too real out here: After his initiation into the Sun On Yee, which required killing someone (and in the process saving Wei’s life), Jackie found himself becoming disillusioned with the triad lifestyle. He’s a petty criminal, but he’s not a killer; that one kill gave him nightmares for weeks. As a criminal, he was content with theft and roughing people up and maybe the occasional drug deal, but murder is definitely not his wheelhouse. As his time in the Sun On Yee wore on, Jackie became less and less sure that being in the triad was the kind of life he wanted. It wasn’t bringing him respect and glory, it was bringing him anxiety and bloodshed. That wasn’t what he’d signed up for. Early in the game he speaks of the impending turf war between Winston and Dogeyes as “epic” and “like in the movies”; there’s the suggestion that he’s not equipped to fully deal with the reality of the violence that comes with being a member of the Sun On Yee. He only sees the movie-star glamor and Bruce Lee fight aspects of it before he’s made a full member, not the disaster and death that are part and parcel of life in the triads. Here's some clown makeup for you, Jackie!
  
• I clearly didn't get enough attention during my formative years: If Jackie views someone as his superior, he’s eager to please, ready to jump at a command to go rough up some street vendors for extortion money or go fight some enemies moving in on the gang’s turf. Not that he doesn’t have initiative; he comes up with plenty of schemes to steal from Dogeyes’ crew and enacts them without explicit authorization from Winston (but he only goes through with heists when he knows Wei’s got his back). He joined the gang to feel like he belonged to something, since there weren’t a lot of opportunities for a kid from Old Prosperity except crime.
  
• Better to be a fuck up than a douchebag: Jackie is tenacious, unwilling to give up even when the chips are down, and persistent in going after what he wants, because ain’t nobody else gonna get it for him. He knows what it’s like to be bullied, so when he can, he stands up for people who are getting beaten down, like his eventual canon girlfriend Jiu Mei...even if that means that the heat has been deflected onto him and he gets a beating as a result. For a gangster, he has a strong sense of honor, principles, and morals. Jackie’s usually pretty cheerful and carefree, ready with a joke (“Do they have internet in America?”) or an insult about someone (usually Dogeyes). He’s also got a mischievous streak and will absolutely do things just to piss his enemies off. Still - he's regarded as the bottom of the totem pole in the Water Street Boys. He doesn't mind, because he belongs to something.
  
• I am so nervous all of the time: As his time in the Sun On Yee wore on, Jackie became less and less sure that being in the triad was the kind of life he wanted. It wasn’t bringing him respect and glory, it was bringing him anxiety and bloodshed. That wasn’t what he’d signed up for. Early in the game he speaks of the impending turf war between Winston and Dogeyes as “epic” and “like in the movies”; there’s the suggestion that he’s not equipped to fully deal with the reality of the violence that comes with being a member of the Sun On Yee. He only sees the movie-star glamor and Bruce Lee fight aspects of it when he’s made a full member, not the disaster and death that are part and parcel of life in the triads. That pegs him as an idealistic sort, or as idealistic as someone from Old Prosperity can get. Unfortunately for Jackie, that idealism doesn’t hold up once it’s exposed to reality, and by the time Wei pulls him out of the coffin on Magazine Island, he’s cynical, paranoid, and pessimistic.
  

Powers: n/a

Abilities/Skills: Being a low-level triad member, Jackie has no real special abilities of note. He’s a better fighter than you would guess from just looking at him - the result of a rough childhood in Old Prosperity - and he can hotwire vehicles with ease. He’s also pretty good at plotting out heists and doing the legwork to find out when things are going to be unguarded, making him decent spy material.

Jackie is also bilingual in English and Cantonese, due to growing up in Hong Kong. He peppers his speech with Cantonese words, phrases, and invective; I will be showing translations of italicized Cantonese terms with hovering tooltips. (Though, in some cases? You might not want to know the translations.)

Weaknesses: n/a

Special Items: n/a

RP Sample: h/c meme, march 2021